good morning. four more years. >> health care reform is no longer -- it is the law of the land. united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. the majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. we know in our hearts that for the united states of america, the best is yet to come. president barack obama, the 44th president, takes the oath of office to serve a second term. and we're here for all the tradition, pageantry and tradition "today," monday,

january 21st, 2013. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," the second inauguration of barack obama, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from washington, d.c. and good monday morning to you, everyone. welcome to a special edition of "today" on a monday morning from capitol hill. as you look at the white house there, now the capitol. i'm matt lauer alongside savannah guthrie, natalie morales and mr. al roker. >> beautiful sunrise in washington. no matter who you voted for, this is an historic day for the country. little cold in the capital, but all along the country, people are starting to gather along the parade route this morning. >> the president and his family have a very full day ahead. so do we here at nbc news. 8:45 eastern starts off, the

celebration does. the obamas and bidens will attend a private prayer service at st. john's church. to there back to the white house for 10:00 coffee with congressional leaders. if you were to be a fly on the wall, that may be the event to attend this morning. >> absolutely. and then they'll start to make their way toward the capitol. the inaugural ceremony begins at 11:00, with his swearing in at 11:55, followed, of course, by his public address. this will actually be his fourth time taking the oath. he took it sunday at the white house in a quiet ceremony. four years ago, you may remember the oath was botched a bit on the capital steps and supreme court justice john roberts had to redo it at the white house. >> i lo like how you say it was botched. you don't point a finger of blame to either one.

>> not on a day like this. >> james taylor, kelly clarkson will be performing in the celebration. and following a luncheon, the inaugural parade down pennsylvania avenue will kick off today at 2:30 this afternoon. what the president will be facing the next four years, coming up. a lot of people are curious, of course, to see what the first lady will be wearing again today. already she's made a big change, her new bangs getting a lot of attention as well. the president has finally weighed in on that new do. we'll tell you what he thinks about it. he's a smart man. >> yeah, come on. really? like he might say something bad? i don't think so. on a different note, football fans in this area have another reason to be really excited this morning. baltimore ravens headed to the super bowl to take on the san francisco 49ers. head coaches brothers, john and

jim harbaugh, going at each other. first for that as well. >> you just made a lot of friends. >> craters. >> they are calling it the har-bowl, coming up. chief white house correspondent is chuck todd, at the white house. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. savannah was pointing out the president was officially sworn in yesterday. he does a ceremonial swearing in. fourth time matching fdr as president who will have taken the oath four times. here is the reason why there's two swearing ins. the constitution says january 20g9. any time it's fallen on a sunday there's been a decision to hold the public ceremony the next day. it was a precedent started by james monroe. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that i will execute. >> that i will execute the

office of the president of the united states. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> led my chief justice john roberts. >> i did it. >> sasha's comment, a reminder of chief justice roberts' flub four years ago. >> and i will execute the office of the president of the united states faithfully. >> and i will execute -- >> this time around, roberts stuck to the script. vice president biden was also officially sworn in sunday by justice sonia sotomayor. the second inaugural address is expected to echo themes from his first, especially the die advvi politics of washington. but mr. obama's advisers say he will take a more realistic approach. >> while we're going to do all we can to work with congress and negotiate, we're also going to make sure that the american people are more connected to

what's going on here. >> reporter: for the first and second families, a jam packed inauguration weekend, from saturday's national day of service to the first lady's appearance at a children's inaugural ball, to a wreath laying at arlington national ceremony. >> celebrating this incredible nation that we call home. >> reporter: today's address, matt, is going to be focused on uplifting things like democracy, like unity. he isn't going to do a laundry list n just three weeks he has the state of the union. that's the place to do that. >> chuck, i was listening to his 2009 inaugural address on the radio last night. in it, he talked about doing away with petty politics, with divisive politics, showing the american people that their government could work for them again. a lot of those things did not happen in the last four years. do you think he might acknowledge the shortcomings? >> reporter: i'm told that he is going to try to acknowledge it, but at the same time be a little

more realistic. i think one of the phrases being used is pragmatic hope, if you will. it's not the same hope and change, not the same expectations that were set four years ago. some realism, but at the same time realizing that actually the country wants this. we saw it in our own poll, matt, nbc wall street journal poll, the number one message that folks wanted to send, particularly to congress, was work together. >> yeah. >> reporter: compromise. >> chuck todd at the white house. we'll be with you a lot today. thank you very much. nbc's willie geist is here as well. he's along the parade route at the u.s. naval memorial. did nobody tell you that the parade doesn't start for 7 1/2 hours? >> matt, the gates aren't even open yet. the crowds are waiting outside. they don't come in until 7:30. we did get here a little bit early. in terms of that crowd, the department of homeland security expecting somewhere between 500,000 and 700,000 people this go around.

four years ago, there were .8 million people along this route. 500,000 to 700,000, nothing to sniff at. when you compare it to four years ago, quite a bit smaller. i'm about halfway along the 1.2 mile route to travel from the united states capitol to the white house behind me. after the president has coffee with congressional leadership at the white house, he will zip past us here with his motorcade to go up and get inaugurated. at 2:30 eastern time after that lunch, the parade comes this way back toward the white house. we'll see him a couple of times. in terms of weather, matt, about mid 40s is what we're hearing. al will have more on that. not a terribly cold day out here. should be nice. the only time this event was canceled because of weather was in 1985, when it was about 7 degrees, snowy, icy. ronald reagan decided to stay inside and not hold the parade. today, the weather looks good. it's crisp.

the show will go on, matt. >> far cry from that. willie, we'll check in with you during the morning as well. thank you very much. lester holt is also here on capitol hill somewhere behind me. good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. we have a great view, the platform where the president will be sworn in, 10,000-square-foot platform will be filled with members of the house and senate, supreme court, members of the cabinet along with the diplomatic core and others. the program gets under way about 11:30. it should last about an hour and a half. james taylor, kelly clarkson and beyonce, who will sing the national anthem at the close of the ceremony. chief justice roberts will administer the sceremonial oath the lincoln bible and the travel bible owned by the reverend dr. martin luther king jr., whose birthday we celebrate today. in that speech worry told the

president will talk about the need to seek common ground. after the inauguration, he will retire inside with members of the congressional leadership with a traditional luncheon at statuary hall before taking off the on the parade down pennsylvania avenue. the menu, steam lobster, bison and apple pie for dessert. >> lester, thank you. david axelrod is the president's adviser. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> how would you describe the inaugural speech? >> the first thing to remember is that this is not a partisan day. this is not a day for one man's celebration. this is a national con sechlt cration. this is a national renewal. he will be speaking about values and principles, not so much about programs and prescriptions and set a direction for the country based on the thing that is unite us. >> inaugural speeches are, by

nature, more poetry than prose. he wrote on this day we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, that for far too long have strangled our politics. >> that's why you need two terms. >> nice words. i was going to say, is there any evidence that the dynamic has changed that he described four years ago? >> obviously we've gone through a difficult four years in many different ways. one evidence that things may be changing is that i thenk there's some recognition on the part of the republican party that the strategy of obstruction has been very damaging to them as well as the country. and you saw that in their retreat last week when they decided to pull back from threatening to push us over the cliff on the debt ceiling. >> if you do talk to republicans, they'll tell you this is a president, very confident from his re-election. some might use the word cocky, and that he has become more partisan and more hard nosed. would you agree with that sae assessment? >> and is it by necessity or

choice? >> no, i think he's become -- he's practical. and if the other side is going to take a position that they're going to oppose you on every initiative, you have to seek national support. in a democracy, people push policy forward not the politicians and so that's a lesson that he has drawn from the first term. that said, as far as i can -- as i know, and as i know him, his door is always open to people who are willing to work together to solve problems and one hopes in the next four years there will be a spirit of cooperation. understand we're never going to agree on anything. that's why we have two parties. in order to move the country forward we have to move together. >> david axelrod, always good to see you. >> good to see you, savannah. >> i know you'll be watching. we will have more on the second inauguration, but first natalie morales has a check of the other top stories. good morning. >> good morning to you. dozens of international

hostages are still unaccounted for. nbc's keir simmons has more from london. >> this morning, two of the dead hostage takers are canadian nationals. the report from algerian officials is not confirmed but if true, then this is a wider al qaeda threat. the bloody aftermath of a siege ended by the algerian army. at least 23 hostages killed and over 20 bodies found overnight. this video apparently shows survivors escaping into the desert with terrifying stories. >> you could hear gunfire and machine gunfire. >> reporter: not just machine guns. the extremists had rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, like a small army, a still unknown number of americans among the victims. >> we cannot accept attacks against our citizens in our

interests abroad. >> reporter: recorded, issuing demands for the release of prisoners, the leader of the hostage takers, believed killed. groups aligned to al qaeda, a new threat say western politicians. >> this is a global threat and it will require a global response. it will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather, than months. >> reporter: britain paul morgan fought back when the attack began last year. former french foreign legion soldier was head of security at the plant. he paid with his life. nbc news has learned that it took a long time to plan this attack, targeting westerners, increasingly organized. >> keir simmons in london. thanks so much, keir. overnight a united express plane veered off the runway, blowing four tires before

careening across a taxiway. it didn't strike anything and no one was injured in the incident. battery fire on board a boeing 787 earlier this month, the government probe says the battery had not been overcharged but the fire could have been caused by other issues with the battery's charging components, as the investigation is ongoing. the entire international fleet of boeing's so-called dreamliner has been grounded since last wednesday after a string of issues. it will be a battle of the brothers, as you heard, at the super bowl xl vii. raven's coach john harbaugh goes head to head with his brother jim. back to matt, savannah and al.

>> two very intense coaches. it will be interesting. >> it will be interesting, the sibling rivalry. >> no question. >> mr. roker, no rain to speak of. >> president forecaster in chief. he said it would be warmer this time around than his last inaugural. he is correct. let's take a look. forecast for you, we are expecting to see plenty of sunshine, although there could be clouds later in the day and snow showers, temperatures between 33 and 40. afternoon high getting up to 47. we've got a big storm system making its way, clipper system coming across the great lakes. that's going to be bringing lake-effect snow around the eastern great lakes, but by tomorrow, major snowfall setting up for southern new england and coastal new england as well. we're talking snowfall amounts about a foot or more between cleveland and buffalo. but look at this. from boston up into portsmouth, we're talking anywhere from six to nine, maybe 12 inches of snow. and more heavy snow back through the great lakes. we'll get to your local

forecast, but first this message. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] take the special k challenge. lose up to six pounds in two weeks. with the cereal you love... and so much more. what will you gain when you lose? >> good morning. it will be chilly day today but it will get even colder tomorrow. a mixture of sun and clouds.

>> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you so much. president obama's second term is technically already under way. the road to get here was not an easy one. >> highs and lows, triumphs and tragedies in the first term, but no one could have predicted exactly how it would all unfold. >> america, i have never been more hopeful. >> hope and change were in the air as barack obama became the 44th president of the united states. >> we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking america. >> in the first 100 days, a flurry of activity with the assembling of a cabinet, new legislation and trips overseas. >> stunning to see just how far the dow has plunged. >> economy on the brink of a passage of a stimulus bill and bailouts for banks and

automakers. >> the typical president has, i think, two or three big problems. we've got seven or eight big problems. >> as he staked his presidency on the passage of health care. >> i'm not the first president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last. >> a year-long partisan battle. >> you lie! >> ultimately led to sweeping reform. as the next challenge swells in the south -- >> we're watching the oil spill in the gulf of mexico tonight. >> the president fended off criticism that he wasn't acting fast enough. >> we talk to these folks because they, potentially, have the best answers. >> he made history with supreme court nominations and with the country engaged in two wars, president obama took action. >> it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. >> he fired a runaway general and fulfilled a campaign promise. >> tonight i am announcing that the american combat mission in iraq has ended.

>> but back at home, the mid-term elections brought a resounding victory for republicans. >> the american people have sent an unmistakable message to him today. change course. >> is it possible voters can conclude you're still not getting it? >> i'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like i did last night. >> president obama moved ahead with his domestic agenda. >> this morning i am proud. final law that will bring an end to don't ask, don't tell. >> as he battled republicans over the debt ceiling. >> dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. >> can they say yes to anything? >> historic night in may brought the news that americans had been waiting nearly a decade to hear. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> within a year he was back on the campaign trail. but on the anniversary of 9/11, a deadly terror attack in

benghazi. >> make no mistake, justice will be done. >> after a long, tough campaign, americans died to give the president four more years. >> thank you, america! >> the thrill of victory cut short by searing tragedy, the day obama called the worst of his presidency. >> our hearts are broken today. these tragedies must end. >> now at the dawn of his second term, president obama has vowed to tackle the tough issues. >> there are no easy outs. >> despite the challenges that lie ahead. >> we know in our hearts that for the united states of america, the best is yet to com come. >> a long four years, in many ways. what will the next four years hold for president obama? can he overcome the challenges that many two-term presidents have faced? we will get into that. >> then on a much different note, the president takes perhaps his least controversial stance on an issue in a long time, as he weighs in about his

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being called the harbowl. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> if you plan to head down to d.c. for inauguration day, we will let you know how those are shipping out. medevac operation here. avoid that intersection if you can. 55 mi. per hour on 295. that looks good and what's the capital beltway. at 212, powder mill road looks pretty good towards the d.c. region. on i-70 towards the beltway, 29 looks like it is moving well with the capital beltway. the baltimore beltway is in great shape. so far so good on the east and westbound. tony, over to you. >> nothing going on weather-

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morning, it is the 21st day of january, 2013. inauguration day here in washington, d.c. that is the view from the capital steps toward the washington monument. down on the mall, it will be filled today as people gather to see the second inaugural of president obama. the official theme of this inaugural, stakes in america's future. it is also martin luther king jr. day. i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt lauer and al roker. >> original program from the march on washington where king gave his famous "i have a dream"

speech. one of the two bibles that the president will use at today's swearing in ceremony is dr. king's so-called traveling bible. the other is the bible that abraham lincoln was using to be sworn in in 1861. that's a pretty weighty moment there. >> that's right. meanwhile, coming up as well, we'll hear from the president's brother-in-law, craig robinson. he has some surprising things to say about how the first term changed the president and his sister, the first lady. >> and we are going to have the answer that everybody has been asking the question to, what does the president think of mrs. obama's brand new bangs? >> there's only one possible response for him. >> he is a very smart man. there could only be one response. >> there's no upside to criticizing that hairdo, no question. >> diplomatic. andrea mitchell is here with a look at the second term of president's past. good morning to you. >> good morning to you.

welcome to washington sbin august ration day. the president has dined the last two weeks with historians to better understand the curse that befalls many second term presidents. he begins his final four years in office. >> i george walker bush. >> do solemnly swear. >> this i will faithfully execute. >> the office of president of the united states. >> for many of these presidents, taking the oath of office was the high point of their second term. from wars, to national disasters, to impeachment trials. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> presidents stumble. >> i'm more than familiar about all the literature of presidential overreach in second terms. we are very cautious about that. >> reporter: there is plenty of precedent. fdr, not satisfied with the majority of 334 democrats in the house and 76 democrats in the senate, tried in 1936 to control the supreme court as well.

>> we came up with this idea of packing the court with his own judges, didn't work. caused the senate, which was democratic, to be very angry at him. >> reporter: ronald reagan won re-election in a landslide but have after an ill fated staff switch he spent the next years in the iran-contra scandal. >> i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and best intentions tell me that is true but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> reporter: bill clinton had to overcome personal scandal. >> indeed i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> reporter: marred by iraq and katrina. >> brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. >> presidents can also overcome early setbacks, as ronald reagan proved in helping to end the cold war. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: president obama told matt last year he has a lot

of unfinished business. >> do you deserve a second term? >> i deserve a second term, but we're not done. >> is battle fatigue a factor? >> there can be mistakes made and there can be fatigue that sets in. president obama, from what i've seen, is highly energized at this moment, does want to leave a positive legacy. >> advisers say that the president is focused on guns, immigration, energy policy and, of course, the economy, but knows he has a year to at most 18 months to get things done before he is seen as a lame duck. the white house game plan is to campaign aggressively outside washington in order to keep maximum pressure on congress. matt? >> andrea, thank you very much. joined by a couple of familiar faces in david gregory and tom brokaw as well. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> his goal has been to get a second term. mission accomplished now. how high will this president set his goals for the second term?

how high should he? >> economic restoration, comes into office amid financial ruin of the country. he understands the public wants to get back to work, wants the country to grow again economically. everything flows from that. that's what we're starting to hear again today. it's four years but much less than that, if you think about that. >> it start with his that, fiscal responsibility, debt and spending. it goes to gn control, immigration, perhaps some action on climate control. that's a very big wish list. what's the chance that he gets a little piece of all of that? >> i don't know whether he will get a piece of all that. at the end of the day, we'll know more after his inaugural speech. my guess is, based on what wooif been told, we'll hear more prose than poetry and a lot of it will be addressed to the middle class because they are the forgotten part of the american economy in the eyes of a lot of democrats especially. my guess is that the big scene for him in the second term, matt, will be big ideas that unite the country and out the idea that is have divided us the

past couple of years. as david is right, you have to restore the economy and everything flows from that. >> you talk about big ideas that unite the country. in the opening of this show i was saying, andrea and david, tom jump in here, they were playing the inaugural address. on this day we put aside petty politics, thon day we put aside the politics of division. we show the people of this country that their government works for them. and yet over these last four years we've seen time and time again those things are firmly entrenched here. >> it's been so toxic that i think the president is betting that the american people, clear in our polls, the people are really fed up with this. and that it will be in the republican party's advantage to play somewhat toward getting something done. you saw that in williamsburg, virginia, with the house caucus last week when paul ryan feared the party and the more radical elements of the tea party which supported him to some sort of compromise short term, at least, on the debt ceiling. >> was it compromise or just a

strategy to move a bigger fight down the road? >> i think it's an indication, a telltale sign about where the republicans are. four years ago, when the president was making that speech, republicans were meeting at night. >> exactly. >> deciding how to defeat him when he won for re-election. they lost that, big time. he had a very robust electoral victory and significant popular vote victory. now the republicans are in disarray, trying to organize their party so they have a future. and they're going to have to deal with the reality of that as well. it is a party that is so broken into a lot of parts on the gop side and there's going to have to be a lot of mending down and more outreach as well. >> couple of key areas. the president has focused on energy independence. people close to him say that could be an unlikely bipartisan legacy for president obama and health care. party line vote, divided the country. implementation will be tough. he will have to spend a lot of time on it to see results. >> immigration was an area shown to be a place where he might

have the most success. >> that's true. >> guns are going to be tough but i think the president also feels that on issues like this, he now can take some chances, even if it's not politically popular, and it's not. he's going for the long ball as well. >> let's save a little bit of what you are have to talk with us. you'll be with us throughout the entire day. >> oh, my god. >> that's true. >> read your e-mails. >> i told you everything i know. >> tom brokaw, david gregory, andrea mitchell. let's get outside and get a check of the weather from al. >> it's going to be a long day. tom's already done. beautiful, beautiful morning as you look at the capital. little inaugural weather history. ronald reagan had the warmest inaugural ever, january 20th, 1981. cloudy skies, 55 degrees. then four years later, he had the coldest inaugural ever at 7 grease at noon, windchills 10 to 20 degrees below. they canceled the parade. look at these windchills up, and

air temperatures up in the upper plains. minneapolis, 7 below. feels like 25 below. green bay, 3. minot, 8 below and windchills even worse. we're looking at temperatures today that are in the below zero readings in the plains, 20s in the northeast. by tomorrow, those temperatures, that cold, bitter cold air makes its way into the midatlantic states all the way down to the south. that's what's going on around >> good morning. a strong cold front will not the temperatures into the 20's tomorrow. today, a chance for some snow showers la

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welcome back to a special inauguration day of "today." willie geist had a chance to speak with a key member of the presidential family, his brother-in-law, craig robinson. good morning to you. >> good to see you again. craig robinson is the brother of the first lady, brother-in-law of the president of the united states. he is also, by the way, the head basketball coach at oregon state university, flew in from a game in l.a. saturday night, here for the festivities. i got a chance to talk to him about politics and about what happens when your family becomes the first family. >> the first time was such a blur. there was an election. my brother-in-law wins. there's an inauguration. my family moved into the white house and i cannot remember anything from that one. so i'm hoping this time around, i can soak it in a little bit more. >> your sister has been in this white house for four years.

do you feel like it's changed her? >> i think it has, for the better. you would be amazed at the number of people who come up to me, because i have this face and i look like my sister, and they are so excited about what she's doing, what they're doing to help this country. >> do you allow yourself sometimes to sit back, maybe you're at home, on tv seeing your brother-in-law address the nation and say that's the guy i knew 20 years ago, running around our house. could that be the same guy? >> all it be a little bit whiter hair. >> yeah. >> you'll see the president doing what he does on a daily basis, whether it's on television, in the newspaper. it just reminds me of how it's possible in this country for a regular guy to get elected president. >> yuf played a lot of basketball with the president of the united states. >> uh-huh. >> as a coach, how do you evaluate his game? >> it's easy.

he is definitely a team player and never tried to act like he was any different of a player than he normally was. that's a real character trait. >> so, is he a scorer or distributor? >> well, he started out a scorer and as he has gotten older, he has become more of a distributor and shot maker, as we all do. it happens when the legs start to go. >> that's right. that's right. how have sasha and malia handled life in the white house? we've seen them grow up. >> right. they're such gracious girls and involving into very nice young ladies. by the end of this, malia will be heading to college. i mean, it's just unbelievable to me. >> coming from where you came from on the south side of chicago, what is it like to look up and see your sister standing there on the steps of the united states capital as her husband is being sworn in for a second term? what is that feeling? >> first and foremost, a sense of pride that i'm standing up there, watching my family

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to party into the wee hours of the morning, this city is getting ready for a party so big they only do it every four years. in just a few hours, the biggest names in d.c. will brush elbows with the brightest stars in hollywood, beyonce, who performed an unforgettable performance, will lend her voice to the swearing in ceremony today. james taylor, who sang his classics on the trail will also perform for the commander in chief. and alicia keys, stevie wonder, to name a few. >> obama has just enhanced that. >> reporter: unprecedented 1.8 million people turned out to celebrate the nation's first african-american president. this year, the crowd is expected to be about a third of that. and instead of the ten official balls of 2009, there will only

be two. but with as many as 40,000 expected, all dressed to the nines, the preparations at the convention center are in full force. at hotels around town, they're getting ready for the nation's biggest party. tell me how you prepare for a weekend like the inauguration. >> this is washington, d.c.'s super bowl. this is our special event. >> reporter: j.w. marriott isn't filled to capacity like 2009, but business is brisk, with the hotel offering an inauguration special, this luxury suite, including a 7,300 square foot terrace, spectacular view of the parade route and unlimited catering. >> the creme de la creme. >> reporter: every inch of the city is bustling. whether it's the first or the second, each inauguration is historic. >> i think it's probably the most important thing that we can do every four years.

to make people believe that we are one country. >> reporter: now i mentioned there are two balls tonight. that's the smallest number since the inauguration of president dwight d. eisenhower. officials tell me they are expecting a comparable number of attendees to what they got back in 2009. matt? >> kristen welker at the white house. thank you very much. we should be seeing the president and first lady in a couple of minutes. >> they'll be head iing off to church. and the honey at the sam. i'm like digging this yogurt thing.t the sam. i feel healthy. new honey bunches of oats greek. pleeeeeeeease... [ female announcer ] betty crocker fruit flavored snacks. pleeeeeeeease... less than 100 calories and made with real fruit pleeeeeeeease... thanks mom! [ female announcer ] betty crocker fruit flavored snacks. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> good morning, everyone. still attracting a few problems. if you are heading to the inauguration this afternoon, this is what it looks like. 55 miles per hour. live view of 95 at powder mill road. continuing to run smoothly this hour. we have an accident where tracking in howard county.

50 and 97 in the annapolis region, so far checking out just fine. major roadways in the baltimore region up to speed. over to you, tony. >> chilly start this monday, but this is just a hint of things to come. high temperatures are going to be in the 20's. 26 in westminster. 29 degrees in elkton. this is producing light snow showers. this is going to sweep across baltimore later on this afternoon. snow showers and flurries later today and this evening. high temperatures around 40 degrees. then the arctic air comes in. overnight lows in the teens.

wind chills in the single digits. chance for snow on friday. that will knock the high temperatures back into the 20s

it's monday morning. it's also the 21st of january, 2013. as you look at the south side of the white house, with the presidential limos parked outside because the first family will be exiting the building shortly. we'll get to see them as they make their way to st. john's church for a prayer service. it's all part of the second inaugural celebration. i'm matt lauer, alongside savannah guthrie, al roker and natalie morales. in about half an hour from now, i guess, is when we'll see the first family for the first time. they'll make that trip across lafayette park, to st. john's, the church of presidents as it's called. i think since they started

services in the 1800s, every person who has held the office of the president has attended a service or more at that church. >> they even have a pew for them, pew 54, if you're taking notes at home. it's a short walk but they'll be driving this morning. then they'll return at the white house at 10:00 this morning. they'll have coffee with members of the congress. and 11:30 the ceremony gets under way with the swearing in at 11:55. >> compared to 2009, this inauguration is expected to be smaller. there is, of course, major security here as well. security is predictably tight. we'll talk with a retired secret service agent about the safety measures in place. some you see, of course, and a lot you don't see. >> there's a no-fly zone, 3,000 square miles for small planes. this is not the day to be flying your small plane into this area. >> absolutely not. somebody who knows a lot about inaugurations, jenna bush hager. she has been to three of them,

one for her grandfather and two for her dad. we'll get her take in a couple of minutes. chuck todd is standing by at the parade route. >> we expect the president to get into the limo. it could normally be a short walk to st. john's church, the church of presidents. they will motorcade there. that's what security would rather have. the bigger event and the tone setter will be the speech that the president makes. when you look at recent second term inaugural addresses, the most interesting facet that i found with bush, clinton and with reagan, all of them used their successful messages of re-election in their second inaugural address. for the president, what's that going to mean? talking about things like rebuilding the economy and the middle class but also trying to break the politics of division. so a similar message from that first inaugural. i'm told, you know, maybe with a little -- a little more realism thrown in, but they do know, for

instance, that that is what the public wants to hear, that they want to hear that the president still would like to break the gridlock of washington, savannah. >> chuck, i've also heard it's short. we'll see about that. >> reporter: we'll see. >> chuck todd at the white house this morning. thank you. let's check in with nbc's erica hill along the parade route at pennsylvania avenue at freedom plaza. erica, good morning. >> savannah, good morning to you. we are just blocks from the white house where we are. you can see the capitol behind me. perfect spot to see this parade come by. freedom plaza was actually renamed in honor of dr. martin luther king jr. it takes on special significance, of course, today, which is also mlk day. the president asasaid martin lur king is one of his heroes. you will see that in the parade float, four of them honors freedom rights and martin luther king. the arc of the moral universe is

long but bends toward justice, one of the president's favorite quotes of martin luther king. there is already a heavy police presence behind us. members of the park service is here as well as they prepare for the thousands of people who will be here to watch this parade today. we'll be bringing you that from this very spot throughout the day as we see them come down past here and make their way to the white house. >> all right. erica hill, from her vantage point along the parade route. thank you very much. >> talk about security. i was hearing this morning that some police officers from all around the country have come to washington. they were sworn in yesterday as deputy u.s. marshals. they'll take part in what is a huge security presence here during the inaugural. let's get a check of the morning's -- headlines of the morning from natalie morales, who is right here. >> all right. good morning once again, everyone. notre dame's star linebacker, manti te'o, has spoken out for the first time since the fake girlfriend hoek was exposed last

week. mike taibbi has the story. >> good morning, natalie. the principles in this story are staying as far from the media as possible. te'o saying late friday had nothing to do with the hoax also concedes that his own words and actions didn't help his cause. heisman trophy runner-up remains in florida, preparing for the nfl draft. but manti te'o told espn he was never, ever part of the fake girlfriend hoax. the person te'o said admitted to him this week it was his doing was ronaiah tuiasosopo. t tayo told espn, he now knows that there was no girlfriend that died tragically, lennay kekua. days after he suspected he had been victimized by a prank still talked about his dead girlfriend at the heisman ceremony in new

york. >> i'll never forget the time when i found out that my girlfriend passed away. >> in what he called his biggest regret, te'o told his father and several interviewers he had, in fact, met his girlfriend when he never had. nfl watchers say it may not hurt his status in the upcoming draft. >> there are guys in the nfl who have done far worse than be involved in some online hoax, whatever extent he was or wasn't involved in it. >> reporter: in the end, it's what te'o calls a humiliation and a "saturday night live" punch line. >> she's not a real person. >> oh, right. >> reporter: it's hard to say where the story goes from here. there is no criminal case and nothing in the wind about any potential lawsuits. at the moment it's a yarn about an accomplished and suddenly famous athlete who was played for a fool and admits that his comments along the way may have made it worse. jessica chastain ruled the

weekend box office, her supernatural horror film "mama" took the top spot with $28 million. she also held the second spot with "zero dark thirty." "silver linings playbook" came in third. more fallout for lance armstrong after his on-air confession to oprah. making him explain his doping scheme to piers morgan. >> would you care to elaborate on your sophisticated system of doping? >> it wasn't all that sophisticated, piers. i did steroids, human growth hormone, epo and i replaced all of my blood with better blood. am i sorry i did it? yes-ish. ps, no. >> this note has gone viral online after being posted in an australian library, announcing

that armstrong's books are being moved to the fiction section. could selena gomez be singing a message to ex-boyfriend justin bieber? calling timberlake's "cry me a river" ♪ cry me a river cry me a river cry me a river ♪ >> making it an even loaded song choice, the biebs himself did a cover of the song back in november after his first split with selena. when this woman finds out she's going to be a first-time grandma, she can't quite contain her excitement. check it out. you're having a baby! oh!

>> her daughter revealed she was pregnant by giving her a baby block wrapped up like a present. that is a priceless, priceless expression there. let's go back down to al, who has another check of our weather. hey, al. >> hey, natalie. that was really sweet. let's show you another inaugural tidbit. forecast becoming cloudy. chances of snow showers late in the day. temperatures will be around 47 as the paragrade kicks off. all right. we've also got for you today a clipper coming across the great lakes, going to bring about throw to six inches of snow generally, but then transfers energy off the coast and brings more heavy snow late tonight and into tomorrow into new england. boston could see six to nine inches. air stagnation alerts continue in the pacific northwest. we've got chilly conditions all the way down as the arctic express moves in, all the way down into the central plains and mid mississippi river valley. th >> good morning.

it will be chilly day today but it will get even colder tomorrow. a mixture of sun and clouds. >> and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> al, thanks. coming up, much more from washington, including what it's like on the parade route through the eyes a secret service agent, right after this. weight watchers online worked for us. we don't argue much. we really don't. meg usually just gets her way, and i go along with it. i think it worked for matt because i did it for him. when i'm the one cooking, i'm the one calculating the points. i can microwave things. you get to eat real food. we still get to go out. we're just so much smarter about it. we can keep each other in check.

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an 11-year veteran of the secret service, dan bunchino, knows what goes into making it safe. >> we think about what you don't have to, chemical attacks, vehicle-born explosives, a fire. you have to make pennsylvania avenue nearly a quadron of washington, d.c. as secure as the white house. >> reporter: before retiring he was in the elite group assigned to product the president. he walked a few steps from barack and michelle obama in the last inauguration. >> reporter: tell me what it's like when you are walking a few steps away from a presidential limousine or president and first lady and looking at all these buildings. what's going through your mind? >> a little bit of fear. it's like riding a motorcycle. the minute it becomes dangerous is when you're not thinking about it anymore. hands. where is everybody's hands? i can't watch 200,000 hands.

but my people are. i'm watching people to make sure they're watching hands and not looking at the parade route. windows, are there any open windows? it's my job to give an umbrella view. every lobby, every window, every floor. it is a massive, massive undertaking. >> reporter: this second obama inaugural is expected to draw nearly half of the nearly 2 million that streamed in to see the inauguration four years ago. a highway tunnel used as a pedestrian access point that became clogged with thousands will be closed this year. officials say they'll have more metal detectors in use and bull bulletins on social media, hoping to avoid the long lines and maroon ticket holders. >> signage referred to as bread crumb that is literally will

take you right to where you need to go and lots of information for us to keep pushing out in the community. that really will be the key. >> reporter: officials say so far they know of no threats to today's ceremonies and they tell me this morning there have been no arrests so far, but they are out in force, hoping to make sure nothing goes wrong. matt? >> pete williams on this story. pete, thank you very much. a former secret service special agent and analyst who worked on president obama's team. evie, nice to see you. >> good morning. >> it's the super bowl for the secret service. >> absolutely. >> when it comes to providing this level of security for this many people, is it the idea to make it as visible as possible or do you somehow want to be in the background to not take away from the pomp and circumstance of the actual event? >> you want to be both. you want to be visible. presence is a deterrence to the bad guys. but you also want to be invisible because you don't want the bad guys to see you.

to do proper security, you want both inside and outside. >> for secret service agents, the mindset has to be that this is the day that something could be tried or this is the day that something could happen. you can never allow yourself to fall into a state of calm. >> no, never. whether he's doing this or going around the corner to get starbucks, an impromptu move, you always have to think like that. complacency will get you hurt. >> as we're hours away from some of the events, take me through. what are the agents thinkging over? >> are the people funneling in appropriately? are people being checked? are people going to be inside on time? are they safe, secure? you're thinking about the route. you're also assessing the environment. are all the players in place? you're looking at about 40 something law enforcement agencies and it's an orchestra coming together to do a symphony

and the secret service is the conductor. >> during the parade, the thrill of thrills for someone along the parade route is when the president and first lady get out of the car and walk. they get to see them. >> yeah. >> they get to get a glimpse of them. that has to be the biggest nightmare for people in your former position. >> yes. of course, you don't want them coming into close proximity with people. you don't know what a person is going to do, even though they've gone through a metal detector. you don't know what their intentions are. >> is that what we think of as a spontaneous moment where the president gets out, actually a carefully, orchestrated event? >> sometimes yes, sometimes no. sometimes we think, okay, we're going to go from point a to point b. and he may do a b-line and go the other way. >> can't the secret service tell him, mr. president, this is where you'll get out of the car and this is where you'll get back in? >> we work together. staff and the secret service work together. he's in touch with the people. that's what's important, to be in touch with the people. but you also don't want to

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special inauguration day coverage from the nation's capital. this is a big day, not ohm for president obama, but also his family. what will four more years at the white house mean for them in jodi ckantor is author of "the obamas." you wrote an article how the president himself has changed in the past four years. what did you learn? >> he came to washington as a newcomer. now he is a professional. people say there is an all-business quality to the obamas now. the mystery that hung over the first inauguration is gone. we know exactly what he wants to do agendawise. and he is also much -- i love this word -- bloodier minded in terms of beating republicans. >> michelle obama had to borrow a word she used in an interview with me, strategic. she is strategic to what she chooses to take on. do you think a second term will be more liberating for her? >> her advisers and her are meeting right now -- not at this

moment -- but in the past couple of weeks, whether she will do something bigger than what she has done before. on one hand she is very strategic, careful. on the other hand she, i believe, will do something to capitalize on her huge popularity. >> she's surprised at how normal her girls continue to be. they're getting older now. how do you think that fact will play out on how the next four years go for them? >> people in the white house use an unusual word to describe these girls, disciplined. very few kids have been described that way. they've never had an embarrassing moment on a public stage. very rare. i think we'll see them move through their teenage years really the same way they have the past couple of years, with incredible care. >> jodi kantor, always great to get your perspective. your book is called the obamas. much more on this inauguration

morning, including our first look at the first family today. but first on monday morning, inauguration day in washington, d.c. and a live look at the white house. this is "today" >> this is a wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara here is traffic pulse 11 and sarah caldwell. >> tracking some delays around the area. shut down at cedar crest road and old westminster pike. tracking the roads towards the dc area. 55 miles per hour at 295. the five and 97 torts 250. no delays to report in this area. 295 and a pretty good shape at this hour as well.

if you want to get southbound on 95, 55 mi. per hour towards the in 95 split. harbor tunnel traffic looking good. lighter volume. tony has a check on your forecast. >> we are off to a chilly start, but the coldest here is towards the middle portion of the week. the leading edge of the arctic air way is coming across southern pennsylvania the present time. you can see some snow showers along that boundary. that will sink down towards baltimore later on this afternoon. a mixture of clouds and sunshine. chance for snow showers and flurries this evening. high temperature near 40, and then it's breezy and cold the next couple of days. overnight lows in -- wind chills

in the teens in single digits. >> back with another update at 8:56.

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back now with more of "today" on this inauguration day. it's monday morning, the 21st of january, 2013. and you're looking at a live shot of st. john's church, a walk across the street, across the park from the white house. we do expect the first family to arrive there in a matter of moments to attend services. it will be their first stop, st. john's episcopal church. that is a tradition started by

fdr. the bidens are expected there as well. we will see them arrive any moment. veteran who met the president during his first white house run and gave him a very special gift. we'll tell you more about that. that is something that the president still holds on to today. the white house just recently learned the man's identity and invited him to today's event. we'll be hearing more about that. you saw jenna bush. we'll talk to her. she has some inauguration memories. she watched her grandfather and her father take the oath of office. so we'll catch up with her as well. >> i think she was just 11 years old the first time when her grandfather took the oath of office. let's check in with nbc's chuck todd. still over by the white house. we should expect to see the president and first lady pretty soon. >> we should. as you guys have noted, st. john's church, church of presidents. president every once in a while goes there on sunday. yesterday, by the way, he and the first family went to church,

predominantly african-american church here in washington, d.c. they worshipped yesterday. he has not been able to worship as much on sundays as he may have thought he was going to. a lot of presidents find it's much harder to do and more disruptive than they realize. a lot of them end up at st. john's -- >> chuck, let me interrupt you. what's happening behind you, i think, on the south side of the white house, we're seeing the presidential limousine and motorcade now pulling away from the building. who knows, they may honk their horn as they go past you in a second. the president and first lady and sasha and malia are on their way to st. john's church. sorry to interrupt you. keep going. >> reporter: no worries. of course, they're driving because of security and because of the parade route. one thing after this service, and what's interesting, i know, you've been talking about the place you want to be more than any other meeting this morning is the meeting with congressional leaders. normally, in first inaugurals,

that's that final meeting between ought outgoing and incoming presidents. this one a little different. with boehner, mcconnell and obama, you would be interested to see if they'll take any business. >> people that have had very public disagreements over key issues in the last several weeks or months alone. you have to wonder what the tone in that room might be. >> reporter: especially with mcconnell. it's never been a warm relationship. the president and mitch mcconnell have had exactly one meeting in the first term, one on one together. and yet mitch mcconnell might be the most important republican on capitol hill. he and vice president biden have a great relationship. >> as we watch these limousines headed to st. john's church, it's a short rooi, we expect the president to get out shortly. tell us about the inauguration speech. we remember the one four years

ago. do you expect it to be a scaled-back speech this time around? >> reporter: realistic hope is probably the way to put it. the public wants -- they do know that while we may be cynical to the message of breaking the g d gridlock and the divisiveness of washington, the speech is not designed for us here in washington. it's designed for the public. and the public is screaming for compromise, screaming for a break in gridlock. so he is still going to talk about those themes. though, as you put it, scaled back with a little more realism. >> all right. chuck, we're starting to see some movement right outside st. john's church. as we know, they call it the church of the presidents and for good reason. so many presidents have attended services on this day, starting with fdr, as we mentioned. there's even a special row, row 54. there is the president of the united states on this official ceremonial day of his swearing in. and the first lady as well. >> savannah, we learned from the golden globes last week it's not what she's wearing, it's who

she's wearing. >> who are you wearing. >> what do we think about this first glimpse of the first lady on this inaugural monday? >> i'm told not too many moments from now we'll be given that all-important information as to what this first lady is wearing, the designer of her clothes as well as the children. i'm also told that the designers themselves don't know. obviously, a lot of eyeballs on the first family as they walk in and greet the pastor, they get ready to sit down to church. >> and the president in that classic navy suit. we've seen that a few times. anyway, as they prepare to go in, i think we have peter alexander who is over at st. john's. peter, i hope you can hear us. give us a sense, if you can, for who else will be in attendance during that service. >> as we watch the first family entering, we saw them sharing an embrace and shaking hands with the reverend, luis leon, also scheduled to offer the ben addiction during t ediction. we witnessed a lot of close

family friends of the obamas arriving here at the church. obamas are the only ones who have gone through the front door, the others arriving through the side. treasury secretary timothy geithner here with his wife a short time ago as well as jack lew who will soon become treasury secretary, assuming he is, of course -- that his confirmation process goes as the president hopes. valerie jarrett, a close family member and close adviser to the president and, frankly, to michelle obama as well arriving. and craig robinson, who you had a chance to speak to a short time ago, michelle obama's brother was here, turned to us, the media and, some of the other crowds that have gathered at the adams hotel to wave. and there's a big cheer as people anticipated their first chance to see this family on this uniquely special day. >> all right. peter, thank you very much. now, by the way, we're looking at the motorcade containing the vice president of the united states, joe biden. dr. jill biden, his wife, will be with him. and i would imagine -- i would

assume their three children heading to this service as well. and we'll see them shortly. >> should mention the reverend, who is delivering the service this morning at st. john's church has a big day ahead of him. he will also do the invocation later today for this ceremony. we're joined in the studio here with doris kearns goodwin, david gregory, moderator of "meet the press" and tom brokaw, who needs no introduction. this is load with pomp and circumstance. what's the importance for the nation to see these events unfold every four years? >> we don't have a king and queen in this country. this is almost like our secular religious day where we invest this person with these extraordinary powers. the great thing still about our country, you are a private citizen one day, become the president next day, you are finished, you go back and are a

private citizen. you don't have all that stuff that you had around you. that's an extraordinary resilience for a demratic system. >> as we prepare to see the vice president, we've spoken about what these next four years will hold for the president. let's talk about these important four years that are unfolding for the vice president, joe biden. is it a feta com plea, in his mind? >> not at all, if hillary clinton -- >> i meep in his mind. >> in his mind. he plays an important role in the first term, will do it again in the second term. the official swearing in, governor of new hampshire, he might have an eye for what happens in 2016. >> talk to us a little bit about joe biden's first four years as vice president. what did we learn about him that we didn't know through all those years in the senate? >> not much about what we didn't know about him before. he has proven to be a very smart choice on the part of the president. during the so-called grand bargain debate they called on

him to go to the hill where he was familiar with everyone on the other side. we saw it again recently after the election, when he got deeply involved in the fiscal cliff negotiations and then picked up the ball on guns. and made it very clear about what they wanted to do and had big ideas about guns. kind of a shared history. it was 1974, when i came, '73 and he came the next year as a young senator from wilmington, delaware. he went through a terrible personal tragedy, losing his wife and a child. when he went to newtown, it was not fake empathy. he really did know what it was like to lose a child. >> there are no cameras inside that church. now they're going to kind of disappear for the next 45 minutes to an hour. we won't see them until they emerge to head back over to the white house. something else about joe biden, in reading some of the information. you forget that he had a serious health scare of his own back in

1988. >> aneurysm. >> exactly. with all the talk about hillary clinton as of late and the health problems she had, with some people questioning moit that impact her political future should she decide to run for president in 2016, he had that brain aneurysm in 1988, ran for president after that and now is the vice president of the united states. >> you know, what you can get involved in, what happens from four years from now, but with medical technology and what we learned -- we need to know more about all these candidates, medically. they protect all their health records but it turns out john f. kennedy was a lot more ill than people realized he was, for example. it's the kind of thing that you need to know more about, the country deserves to know more about. my favorite inaugural morning story, however, involves ronald reagan, who comes to washington, d.c. elected but with a huge mandate. inaugural morning, he is asleep in the blair house, getting ready to go. and he's not up yet.

and finally mrs. reagan says to one of his aides, go in and get the president. he goes in there and says, mr. president, it's time to go to the hill for you to be sworn in as president and from beneath the covers reagan said meekly, do i have to? >> second thoughts on inaugural morning. >> we have a team of early risers this morning, in both the vice president and president have been seen this morning at church. you three are not going anywhere. stay with us. we want to take a moment and get a check of the weather with mr. roker. good morning again. >> hey, good morning, savannah. beautiful morning here. there may be clouds moving in later. let's look and show you a few little facts about our inaugural weather. wettest inaugural, franklin d. roosevelt, 1.77" of rain they picked up during the inaugural swearing in, almost .7" of rain. and snowiest inaugural, william taft, 9.8" of snow, heavy snow,

drifting snow in 1909. cloud i clouding up later today. chance of afternoon snow showers. temperatures in the mid 30s to low 40s. by the afternoon we're looking for a high of about 47 degrees. >> good morning.ing on aroundt' a strong cold front will not the temperatures into the 20's tomorrow. today, a chance for some snow showers la >> and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> al, thanks. our live coverage of this inauguration day continues here on nbc. yes, we are waiting for word on what michelle obama is wearing this day. but first this is "today" on nbc.

welcome back to washington, d.c. that's the first look we've gotten this morning of the president, first lady and first daughters as they got ready to attend church. they are inside st. john's church as we speak on this inauguration day. and we should just mention we now have the information some people are waiting for. the first lady is wearing, we are told, a thom browne coat, j. crew shoes. she has a long route along the parade route this morning. >> kudos to david gregory, who got all that right except the j. crew shoes. every aspect of that right. let's turn now to jenna bush hager, here with the story of

one man whose unlikely gift to the president carried a greater significance than he could ever imagine. good morning to you. >> good morning. sometimes those unexpected moments in life have the largest impact. so much is known about our 44th president, but who is this man who unknowingly inspired him? a chance encounter in an elevator that changed two lives. when in 2008 at hyatt hotel, earl smith, their security director -- >> i love you back. >> -- met the future president. >> the feeling i had just overpowered me. >> reporter: overcome with emotion, he pulled out his most meaningful possession, a war patch he always kept with him. >> senator obama, i want you to have this. i have been carrying this patch for 40 years. i think it will bring you good luck in your journey. >> reporter: he hoped it would inspire the senator during the heated campaign.

>> that patch represented my family, my relatives, my friends and it represented all the people in the united states of america. >> reporter: valerie jarrett, the president's top adviser to president obama didn't know earl's name, but he never forgot his generosity. >> when he wakes up in the morning, it is with people just like earl smith in mind. >> reporter: it wasn't until weeks ago when the washington reporter put the pieces together and found earl. >> the more digging i did, the more interesting it became. and the richer it became. >> reporter: earl's story begins in south texas. his ancestors were slaves and he grew up working in the cotton fields. >> came from a family that was very hard-working people. but there again, that's the definition of american families. >> reporter: in his early 20s, he was drafted to vietnam. when he returned from war, rebuilding his life wasn't easy.

>> a very big struggle, but with being in the hotel industry, i found a home. >> reporter: earl married, had children and live out his dream. but there was one thing he couldn't do. >> i have never been -- one reason why, i couldn't bring myself to go. >> you think you're ready to go now? >> i'm ready to go now. >> reporter: a trip in the making. you thought about this for a long time? >> 40 years. >> reporter: 40 years. a salute to the past, a nod to the future. when valerie jarrett learned earl's memory, she wrote an emotional letter, inviting him to meet the president. earl is attending the swearing in ceremony today and on tuesday he will spend time with president obama at the white house. pretty great man. >> cool story, jenna. since you're here, we can't help

but ask you -- david gregory asked for this, for jenna to share her memories. you had a distinct vantage point. you were just 7 years old when your grandfather was sworn in for the first time. what do you remember? >> i was in the first grade. being so young, there i was, with those bangs. got them before michelle obama. being -- being in the first grade and really seeing history live, you know, it was magical. but also seeing my grandpa, who i loved so much, get what he had worked for his entire life, meant a lot for us. >> you were a little older, you and your sister both a little older as your father took the oath of office. as you watch that day, obviously pride in your family and your father. was there some fear and trepidation as well? >> probably. look at that freshman 15. a little bit. you know, nobody wants to hear their parents criticized. we were in college. so, of course, that's a selfish

time in anyone's life when you're focused on your studies and your life. we were hesitant. i think also we were just -- i remember cry iing, nobody surprised by that but being in tears because this is something that he worked for for so long. >> do you feel that in your moment and you're looking out? this must be something that's a little surreal about that whole experience. >> i had gone to the last three inaugurations. i was telling david that it's pretty amazing to be there with all these had politicians who you have read about and studied and you know and to be standing there with them and look out to this huge crowd. it's living history. and it's not something that many people get to do. >> jenna, i have a really memorable memory, encountering you during the campaign. and your grandfather brought you and your sister over to talk to me about what it was going to be like. and i said you should really just go with the flow and enjoy it as much as you can. and you looked at me, with that

m mischievous smile and said does that mean i can stick out my tongue? >> is that true? >> we know that you have done that. >> we had known to be comforting to jenna. >> i saw david gregory on a run and he was like, jenna, come here! i have to ask you -- >> you wrote a lovely letter to the obama girls before the inauguration last time around. >> we got to show them around the white house, which was fun. we were young, too. we taught them how to slide down the banisters. >> jenna bush hager, always great to have you. thank you. we'll have much more from here in washington in a moment. first this is "today" on nbc.

sources. we now have more information about what the first daughters

are wearing. malia is wearing an ensemble by j. crew. >> and sasha is wearing a kate spade coat. we'll have all the information on inauguration things big and small. but first this is "today" on nbc. i got it when we could download an hd movie in like two minutes. [ male announcer ] once you've got verizon fios internet, you get it -- the difference 100% fiber optics makes. but don't take our word for it -- ask a real fios customer. ask me why fiber optics matters. ask me about the upload speeds -- they're sick! [ male announcer ] so go online and send a tweet to a real fios customer. last chance to get fios for just $89.99 a month for 2 years with a 2-year agreement. plus get $300 back.

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inauguration day and martin luther king's birthday, the reason you're seeing us and not the president, they're in st. john's church, attending a ceremony there. and after that they'll go back to the white house, meeting up with congressional leaders. >> the ceremony on the capital begins at 11:30, with the president's swearing in expected at 11:55 am this morning on the nose. first a check of your local news and weather. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. baltimore city police make an arrest in connection with the deadly stabbing. detectives have charged a 47- year-old in the stabbing death of melissa davis bi. researchers say he stamper will bubble times on saturday.

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>>. it is going to be a chilly day, with the coldest air will come in tomorrow. a mixture of sunshine and clouds, and a chance for snow showers and flurries late this upton and an event. >> we are back with another weather update at 9:25.

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